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Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
Lars997:Glad you like it Lars.
@ResB - great signature animation!
By eck, that R8 is a bit slow. ;)
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Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
lol, that fizzed by. :) My mate has just sold his mini and got a Renault R26. He says it's very impressive, so much grip he was amased....rattles like a bag of spanners tho' 
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Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
Ok, more updates.
Installed a rear strut bar for even more rigidity.
Added powerflex polyurethane mounts and bushes to all the mounts in the car. It vibrates a bit more, but wow the handling and steering response feels like a surgeon's blade now.
Also put in an aerogel blanket above the exhaust manifold to keep the engine bay temperatures low. Works like a charm!
An oil cooler is on it's way and I'm busy contemplating a meth kit.
Everytime time I time myself, this is the last one.... 
It goes quicker than one though 
Aug 13, 2009 12:29:33 PM
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Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
My oil cooler, lower thermostat, race cam, forge aluminum expansion and powersteering tank arrived today! I'll be busy on the weekend .
Will take some photo's once I get home.
I'm still waiting for water/methanol injection kit to arrive. Bought some new lightweight racing wheels and Cross coilover suspension kit. I really need to stop for a bit after tthis 
and we are with you each step of the way. 
Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
LOL Tee
Thanks Joe, I have never "modified" any car before, I must say the bug has really bit me.
Photo of the oil cooler. It replaces the OEM heat exchanger.
The Forge tanks, my new thermo and the camshaft still in it's box behind them.
Sep 10, 2009 6:06:57 PM
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Sep 11, 2009 12:01:52 PM
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Hehe, so pleased to see this is still a live thread. Gunna have to come to the World Cup now and perhaps see the Mini in the flesh. ;)
Keep it up Mike, it'll be a feature in a car mag soon. :)
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Sep 14, 2009 11:16:10 PM
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Super Darius:
Mike,i lost this one year long thread..
well..after read it...
i can tell your are definitively CRAZY!!!
what a work!!and if i understand well,the end is again far...
Thanks Super Darius - it has come quite a long way. Everytime I tell myself, this is the last one. I find something else - the internet is the devil
Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
ResB:
Hehe, so pleased to see this is still a live thread. Gunna have to come to the World Cup now and perhaps see the Mini in the flesh. ;)
Keep it up Mike, it'll be a feature in a car mag soon. :)
Be my guest 
Haha, so long as it's not in one of those "ricer" magazines 
Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
Ferdie:
Great to see how much effort you put into the car and documenting it for us.
I do not want to put a bug in your ear but why don´t you perform the same with an even more focussed machine, say a GT3?
I enjoy it, might as well share the experiences and at times I reflect back on this thread to remind me of when I got this car on day 1.
I will eventually run out of things to do, I've been itching to do something to the Exige now that I think of it 
In anycase, here is the progress. I have had the car stripped since last Wednesday. I just don't get around to get enough time to finish putting the stuff in.
I actually just finished putting in the thermo and the adapting plate for the oil cooler tonight. It's 1AM!!
This is what the car looks like 30 minutes ago. My garage is a mess!
On the weekend, I trimmed the bumper to make sure the new large oil cooler would clear it. That's all done. Just testing the fit and it's good!
I hope to get more done tomorrow night after work. What a long day that's going to be. Oh, my water/meth system arrived - that will go in tomorrow as well.
My new coilovers and front + rear endlinks are on their way from NY. My lightened crank pulley (with damper) is also on it's way from Texas. The new lightweight racing wheels will be dropped at my house end of this week or the next
Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
Mike S:
SciFrog:
I only have the standard LSD, my front tires are gone at 6k miles...
Hi Sci, that sounds normal. Mine last around there as well
Maybe less.
I guess summer performances tires would help too, but I don't want to change them for the winter so I am stuck with the all season runflats...
Re: My Mini's biography, new chapters to be added
Thanks Porker. I'm sure you will. A little time and patience is all you need. I was clueless, I normally call my old man and ask for advice (he used to own showrooms and was quite hands on in the workshop in his younger days).
I got the Forge tanks in today and the routing for the oil cooler done. Need to take the one intercooler horn tomorrow to be precision drilled for the nozzle of the water/methanol kit.
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